Because Quote by Anselm Kiefer

“Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.” quote by Anselm Kiefer — Download Open image

“Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”

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History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

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Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

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When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

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I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

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I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

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Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

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I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

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I am of the opinion that there are artists and non-artists. I think that this is the way it always was and always will…

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